Stories from Wednesday, June 7, 1995

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Adel Templeton of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home, with the Rev. Jerry Reynolds officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Templeton, 71, died Monday, June 5, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

SIKESTON -- The annual Jaynes family reunion will be held Sunday at the SEMO Sports Complex behind the VFW Stadium on East Malone in Sikeston. The event begins with coffee at 9:30 a.m. The potluck meal will be served at 1 p.m. For more information, call Roxann McRoy at 471-7021 or Helen Jaynes at 471-8362...

POPLAR BLUFF -- A Poplar Bluff man was in serious but stable condition Tuesday at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau after a diving accident over the weekend. Tyson T. Kern, 24, received serious spinal injuries while swimming at Lake Wappapello Saturday afternoon. He was transferred to St. Francis Medical Center Saturday night and remained in the hospital's surgical intensive-care unit Tuesday...

A New Madrid County Highway Department worker was killed in a work-related accident Tuesday morning. Garry Harris, 47, of Matthews was killed when a load of gravel fell on top of him. He was pronounced dead at Dexter Memorial Hospital. The accident occurred on County Road 563, two miles east of Malden...

Broadway is one of Cape Girardeau's busiest thoroughfares, particularly as it approaches Kingshighway. The street was widened to four lanes from Kingshighway east to Clark in 1990 to help ease traffic congestion. The city has included a proposal to extend the widening of Broadway to four lanes from Clark to Caruthers in its five-year capital improvement plan. ...

Today, as promised last time around, we discuss uses of "set" and "lay" as nouns. Seldom do we receive queries about writing these forms unless they appear in combination with other parts of speech. Wary writers are not sure whether to retain the separation of parts, hyphenate, or turn the expression into singles...

Son to Eric and Gayla Ressel, 501 Woodbine, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:02 a.m. Wednesday, May 24, 1995. Name, Logan Payne. Weight, 6 pounds 5 ounces. First child. Mrs. Ressel is the former Gayla Dooley, daughter of Gene Dooley of Bloomfield and the late Rosalie Dooley. She is employed at Ford Motor Credit Co. Ressel is a self-employed contractor with Eric Ressel Construction. He is the son of Jim and Esther Ressel of Cape Girardeau...

DEXTER -- Funeral service for Pearl Long of Dexter will be held at 4 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Floyd Long, a nephew, will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery near East Prairie. Friends may call at the funeral home after 11 a.m...

Norma Clara Jane Ticer, 80, 1705 Whitener, died Tuesday, June 6, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 23, 1914, in Cape Girardeau County, daughter of Lewis and Freida Bock Moore. She and Roy E. Ticer were married Jan. 10, 1948, in Osceola, Ark. He died April 4, 1976...

Funeral service for Wilma Rita Bechel, 2001 N. Kingshighway, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Louis Launhardt will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today...

PUXICO -- Opal Horton, 73, of Puxico, died Monday, June 5, 1995, at Puxico Nursing Center. She was born June 30, 1921, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of Willis and May Irene Wilson. She and James Horton were married in 1970. He died in 1988. Horton lived in Poplar Bluff many years, moving to Puxico eight years ago...

SIKESTON -- Ruel J. Swank, 98, of Sikeston, formerly of Charleston, died Monday, June 5, 1995, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Nov. 10, 1896, in the Lusk Chapel community, son of Ben M. and Mahala Mosley Swank. He and Edna Marie Bounds were married Nov. 1, 1936. She died Oct. 28, 1991...

SIKESTON -- Graveside service for Elizabeth Hennings of St. Clair, Pa., will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Sikeston City Cemetery, with the Rev. Ed Pangburn officiating. Nunnelee Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Hennings, 85, died Friday, May 19, 1995, at her home...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Russell W. Bauer, 19, of Jonesboro, died Monday, June 5, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, from injuries received in an automobile accident last week on Lick Creek Road near Anna. He was born Nov. 14, 1975, in Mattoon, son of Louis and Carole Russell Bauer...

Sgt. Steve Barnhart with the National Guard looked over one of about 30 sand boils that have surfaced next to the main levee 10 miles south of Commerce Tuesday afternoon. All the sand boils have been contained with sandbags placed around the boils by the Corps of Engineers...

Some 84 people have applied for the Cape Girardeau city manager post, with the application deadline more than a week away. There was an 85th applicant, but he withdrew after landing another job. Among the applicants are several from Missouri. There also are applicants from California, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky and the New York and New Jersey area...

PEOPLE IN this area are very fortunate and don't know it. We attended both the Cape municipal band's concert on Memorial Day night and Jackson municipal band's concert in the park. What a wonderful night. People should really support these two groups. They deserve your support. They are excellent...

Cape Girardeau's Chamber of Commerce supports a five-year, half-cent transportation tax to raise more than $16 million for city road and bridge projects. The chamber's board of directors voted unanimously to endorse the 20 projects on the list during the board's monthly meeting Tuesday...

The Groesbeck family started hearing the sound a couple months ago -- the unmistakable noise of woodpeckers pounding away at a cedar-sided home. Doug Groesbeck wasn't too concerned at first, until he went outside one day to find a sizable hole in the side of his home. Then another...

Volunteers are the backbone of any organization, said Mary Burton, director of the Southeast Missouri chapter of the American Red Cross. And, she is especially grateful for the volunteers who help the Red Cross serve the community throughout the year...

The Cape Girardeau Public Library will present a program titled "Home Grown Flower Arranging" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 21. Sina Kaiser, a Cape resident, will offer basic flower arranging tips using home garden flowers. Participants are encouraged to bring flowers from their own gardens, iris leaves, a container and an oasis to make their own arrangements. They also should register for the program in person or by phone...

The Cape Girardeau Municipal Band will present its first regular Wednesday concert at 8 tonight at the Capaha Park Band Shell. The one-hour concert will feature a guest performer, soprano Cary Nall, and a guest conductor, Mayor Al Spradling III. Selections will include: "On the Esplanade," "Overture in B-Flat," "Ode for Trumpet" featuring Jerry Ford, "Elvis Presley -- His Golden Hits," "His Honor March," "American Folk Rhapsody" and selections from "Cats."...

The 16 members of the Salvation Army staff will most certainly notice a difference when Capt. Elmer Trapp and his family leave later this month. Trapp received farewell orders from the Salvation Army at the end of May. He is moving to Jefferson City...

Thirteen contestants will compete Saturday afternoon in the annual Miss Riverfest Pageant. It will begin at 2 p.m. on the main stage at the corner of Themis and Spanish. Contestants were chosen from high schools in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois...

SAUGET, Ill. -- Cape Girardeau's Kohlfeld Capahas notched a much-needed victory here Tuesday night as they held off Sauget 5-3. The Capahas improved to 8-6 on the season. "It's good to win a ballgame like that," said Capahas manager Jess Bolen. "It was a close game and a well-played game. Sauget has a good ballclub. They're a college all-star team with players from Missouri, Illinois and other schools."...

Talley Haines said he felt no undue pressure to stay at home and attend Southeast Missouri State University. But you can bet his father felt a bit of extra pride Tuesday when the recent Cape Girardeau Central High School graduate signed a letter of intent to play baseball for Southeast...

PADUCAH, Ky. -- Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons American Legion baseball pushed its season-opening winning streak to five here Tuesday night by hammering out a 16-7 decision over perennial Legion power Paducah. Ford & Sons improved to 5-0 as the contest was stopped after seven innings because of an eight-run rule used by Kentucky American Legion programs...

A pair of former Southeast Missouri State University baseball players begin professional careers this week as they head to Florida for rookie minicamp before receiving minor league assignments. Center fielder Kerry Robinson and catcher Rex Crosnoe, who both recently finished impressive senior seasons at Southeast and were All-Ohio Valley Conference and All-OVC Tournament selections, were taken last weekend during baseball's annual amateur draft...

Butch Smiley of Cape Girardeau recorded a hole-in-one Saturday at the Jaycee Municipal Golf Course. Smiley's shot came on the 12th hole, a 165-yard par 3, using a 5 iron.

RE/MAX International, Inc., an international real estate organization with more than 41,000 sales associates in nearly 2,500 offices -- including Cape Girardeau -- has announced its title sponsorship of the 1995 RE/MAX North American Long Driving Championship...

After a rough morning on the golf course Monday, Mark McDowell decided he hadn't had enough. Good thing, because by the afternoon the day had become his most memorable as a golfer as he lived every player's fantasy twice by dropping in a pair of holes in one...

Fast-pitch softball lovers should make plans to be in Kelso this weekend because the 11th annual Kelso Klassic Invitational Tournament figures to once again offer plenty of excitement and entertainment. The tourney, sponsored by the Kelso Kwik Stop in Kelso and Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau, will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Kelso City Park...

May was truly a wet month, just as Earl Finkle, weather forecaster on The Farm Report said that it would be. He also said the storm system, which has plagued us for the past several weeks, would be followed by a hot, dry summer. He was certainly correct on the first prediction of the storms...

Check most any kitchen around the world and there is one kind of grain most will store. This spring, John and Jerri Wyman spent hours in their kitchen developing dishes that feature this grain that is equally at home on fine china and in breakfast bowls...